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Title: | Designing Equator-Facing Window for Direct Solar Gains Optimisation in Buildings |
Authors: | Inusa, Yaktor J. Dassah, Elizabeth Nimlyat, Pontip S. Ajufoh, Michael O. |
Keywords: | Shading device radiation beam. Radiation |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Conference |
Series/Report no.: | Procs 6th;Pp 303-315 |
Abstract: | As solar gains play a vital role in influencing thermal environment in
determine the shading device size and corresponding RBH while
apparent sun-paths model described in Szokolay (2007) for this analysis.
facing window would aid in improving thermal performance of buildings
equator-facing window height on horizontal shading device size and the
buildings, direct solar gains is the most influential of the three modes of
indicating that optimising direct solar gains does not rely on largest
window which requires only horizontal shading device for optimisation.
In varying the window height, calculated solar altitude was used to
rate of change of radiation beam height (RBH). This study adopted the
increases the shading device size as well as corresponding RBH. However,
transmission. So, optimising direct solar penetration through equator
gains in buildings, and a useful means for architects to design equator
However, it provides a basis for further research in modelling direct solar
examining its rate of change. Results show that increase in window height
the rate of increase of RBH diminishes with increase in window height
window height. This study focuses on vertical aspect of the equator-facing
during winter. This study seeks to investigate the effects of varying
facing windows. |
Description: | 6th West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Conference, 10-12 August 2015, Accra, Ghana, 303-315. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3332 |
Appears in Collections: | Architecture
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